The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-06

Der annually by making them
idiots.
6. She utters her complaint fur.
Their, because alcohol greatly dam
ages the public health. The testi-
mony of the best physicians is to
the effect, "that a very large por-
ton of human misery, including
poverty, disease and crime, is in
duced by the use of alcoholic or
fermented liquors as beverage"
The fact that epidemics take off
drunkards first, is proof that alco-
hol is a great destroyer of the hui
man constitution, and great ally
Of disease.
Will society busy herself about
slaughter houses, street cleaning,
and quarantine regulations, and
overlook that which produces
more i'll health and death than
perhaps, all other causes to.
gether?
7. One of the loudest COM
plants against the liquor traffic is
based upon the fact, now better
understood than formerly, that
alcoholic beverages greatly "citiate
human stock" 1t not only impairs
the physical condition of the faith
er ana the mother, by greatly
damaging the brain, the blood, the
tissues and the nervous system,
but the child of the drunkard in
herits the same weaknesses, often
much intensified, and often also
the thirst for strong drink, and
thus the child has little chance for
life and less for purity, virtue, and
honorable manhood. When we
consider the vast number of drunk
ards, and heavy drinkers, who are
not yet classed with drunkards
and the millions of moderate
drinkers" and then contemplate
the countless evils-physical and
moral-to be entailed upon lnno-
cent posterity, we have no lam
guage adequate to express the
milliOnth part of the damage to 80
ciety from this source alone. Will
society take great pains to "breed
up" her stock of horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs and even dogs; and
at the same time seek not to
prevent the rapid deterioration of
the human stock 7 Is a man worth
less than a horse, dog or a hog 7
Is human life the only thing of
little value 7 Is human stock the
only one not worth preserving.
s. Society is becoming weary of
counting her drunken criminals,
and she makes a sore complaint
against alcohol on this ground.
From so to 80 per cent. of all
the murderers, all the convicts in
jails, state prisons and in houses
of correction can trace their deg
radiation to the use of ardent spir-
its. Society is not only tired of
footing these numerous bills, but
she laments much more the loss
of manhood in her citizens. These
degraded and dishonOred men
greatly lower the average of man.
hood in the members of society,
and thus drag down the whole
mass considered in the aggregate.
Society is eagerly looking for a
prereatire of these evils which,
after they occur. have no cure.
8. Another great complaint
against the traffic in alcohol is
based upon the fact that it is the
ally Of al erilsj and the enemy Of al
good.
1t is the ally of the murderer,
the thief, the gambler, the prosti-
tute and the robber; while, with
steady hand, it opposes purity, in
tegrity, charity and every moral
excellence. 1t drags down, never
elevates; dishonors, never enno-
bles; blackens, reputation, never
protects it. 1t debauches, under
mines, destroys, subverts charac-
ter, ruins the man physically, men
tally, morally, socially, temporarily
and eternally! 1t is, no doubt,
the Devils most efficient agent in
dwarfng, blighting, blasting, and
damning the human family. Will
society busy herself in signing for
the welfare of man aud not lay her
mighty hand on this monstrous
| friand Of OWL ond foa IN all oood .